Six Love Stories as Told Via “69 Love Songs” by the Magnetic Fields

Some of them are just transcendental. Some of them are really dumb.

In 1999, I undid my life.

I was 28-years-old and knew none of my primary pillars — home, relationship, career — were what I wanted them to be. Then at the end of July, the week of my 29th birthday, I broke up with…